I have a small family and like to freeze some of my holiday cooking while it's fresh. I recently cooked fifteen lbs of mixed greens (Kale, collards and turnip greens) and I had to froze two large bowls. Cleaning and cooking that amount of greens is alot of work and I'd like to preserve some of that fresh green madness for weekday evening when i come home from work and am not about to wash a lb or 2 of greens eight or nine times. On new years day I plan on cooking black eyed peas with some of my ham from Christmas and making a fresh batch of beef stew. As soon as that bountiful beef concoction is cooled, I will put some in the freezer for next week or the week after. My freezer and my microwave may just be my two best friends. I'll come home one evening with frazzled nerves and sore feet, it will be a blessing to pop that beef stew in the freezer and throw some biscuits in the oven.
My son is at that unpredictable preteen age where I may come in and cook a three course meal and all he wants is a hot dog. There are times I pull out my box of macaroni and cheese, pound of ground turkey and Spaghetti sauce...a good quick meal and very satisfying. Another quickie we love is a pound of ground turkey, a can of refried beans and a jar of salsa. Both those dishes take less than 30 minutes to prepare. Now that my oldest son is away at culinary school, I have less cooking to do. I have faced the reality that children grow up and go away. One day my youngest son will be off to college and it will just be me and the cat. I see an impressive array of canned goods in my future.
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